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It would be helpful if the site could define what they mean by the average. The average visitor to the website thanaverage.xyz? The average American? the averag

It would be helpful if the site could define what they mean by the average. The average visitor to the website thanaverage.xyz? The average American? the average person around the world? It seems like it would be more interesting to make a guess about the average visitor to the website, but it's not clear if that's the case or not. Compared to the average American or the world, the numbers for this small segment of people who would visit this website would not reflect the average.

LeoPanthera 5y ago
But it does define. "Imagine you are in a room with 100 strangers, Imagine they're similar to your peers and neighbours."
- paxys 5y ago
  But then aggregating the results together doesn't really mean anything. 100% of responses could be "I am more XYZ than average" and they could all be correct.
  - robot_no_419 5y ago
    In the "about" section of the webpage: "ThanAverage is a small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other." It's just a fun website... don't think too much about it.
    - arolihas 5y ago
      You realize you’re on HN right?
      - lamontcg 5y ago
        Do you overanalyze and intellectualize more than average?
        arolihas 5y ago
        Depends on who we consider average I guess :)
- talaketu 5y ago
  So "more than median" it is.
- jaza 5y ago
  Still not clear IMHO. What is "peers and neighbours"? Same country as me? Same age as me? Same gender as me? Same socio-economic group as me? If I take all that to one extreme, then I have zero peers and neighbours, because nobody is in all the exact same categories as me. If I take it to the other extreme, then all other living (or dead?!) humans (or lifeforms?!) on Earth (or elsewhere?!) are my peers and neighbours.